Here's some Sylvia Plath news that isn't depressing — and is actually kind of swell. There’s a newly discovered and extremely rare proof copy of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and it will be auctioned in London next month. So, if you're a big Plath fan…

It's May 25 and you know what that means... unless you don't. It's Towel Day. A day when we honor the genius of science fiction phenome Douglas Adams by sporting his most beloved travel accessory. And of course, geekily quote our favorite bits to fel…

Welcome to the world, guys. Welcome to internships that pay you in stolen office supplies, 17 roommates (eight of whom are unskilled musicians and three of whom smell like sadness), and a void of meaningless. It's great! Maybe you're one of those peo…

Take a look. It’s in a book. It’s friggin’ Reading Rainbow and it’s back. Kinda. This week the wonderful people who brought you Reading Rainbow launched the website Skybrary, which features almost everything nine-year-old you loved about the televisi…

Dear Important Television People, I have an urgent request that you need to see taken care of ASAP. I love watching movie versions of my favorite books, as long as it's not a remake of Brideshead Revisited in which they think they write better dialog…

Phew, magical realism-loving book fiends, breathe a sigh of relief. It’s gonna be OK. The signed first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude that was stolen last week has been recovered, according to Colombian police. The discovery was announced F…

Allow me to dazzle you with my impeccable Spanish: los libros son buenos. The books are good. Especially when they are going to kids from disparate cultures or lower income families. That’s the philosophy of nonprofit First Book, who will distribute …

Some people have the good fortune of being besties with their mothers. Together Mom and Daughter can talk about anything, including the fact that they are so alike, especially in all of their best traits! How DREAMY. These daughters seem to somehow h…

If you enjoy laughing bitterly at the sad, stupid state of humanity, congratulations, you are about to get a present. This week, IM Global Television announced it will be bringing one of literature’s funniest dystopias to the small screen with a tele…

Mystery readers around the world have suffered a loss. On Saturday morning, her publisher announced that British crime writer Ruth Rendell died at age 85. Rendell, the author of the Inspector Wexford crime series and more than 60 novels, passed away …

Boys like firefighters, pirates, science and sports. Girls like princesses, fuzzy animals, cooking and listening to explanations. That’s how gender works. Or at least, that’s how gender worked at a major children’s publishing house until last Friday,…

Are there some books that would be stronger if they'd be written by a woman instead of a man? There's one reviewer that thinks he's found an example. In Choire Sicha's New York Times Book Review writeup of Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shame…

In the beginning, "Kanye West created the heaven and the earth. And Kanye West said, Let there be light: and there was light." Confused? Or are you understanding your god in a whole new way? If so, have I got a book for you. It’s the Kanye West bible…

They’ll let anyone write a book these days – even 10-year-old girls are getting published. True, this particular 10-year-old would go on to become the queen of England and empress of India, but that’s not the point! Oh wait … it is. Because the young…

Welcome to the 21st century, ladies and gentlemen … I mean, human beings. We have Call Me Tree, a children’s book without gender specific pronouns. And it's fantastic. This week the Huffington Post interviewed author Maya Christina Gonzalez about her…

George R.R. Martin delights in driving his readers crazy — this we know is true. He gleefully beheads our favorite characters, he taunts us with glimpses of chapters to come, like the 'Winds of Winter' excerpt he released earlier this week, and then …

Hard times bring out the best in some rare people and they are rarely rewarded for it. This week, one man was. It has been announced that Ferguson Public Library director Scott Bonner has won the second Lemony Snicket Prize, awarded to noble libraria…

Imagine your ideal library. Now instead of walls, there are books. Instead of a ceiling, books. Want a window? Just pull out a book, et voilà. Now stop imagining because it’s real. There’s going to be an enormous library made of books at the Bay Area…

Censorship is a [witch]. What a pain in the [bottom]. It can certainly go [freak] itself. Especially this week. Because this week a battle was fought between the censors and those they would censor, and the foul-mouthed fiction writers won. The Clean…

It’s the document that told us the truth about “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” It’s the report that forced the resignation of two of Ferguson’s most powerful officials, City Manager John Shaw and Chief of Police Thomas Jackson. It’s the news that enraged ev…